32 yrs in telecom, teaching, blog & grant writing, biz development, marketing, & PR. Favorite moments in life involve time w/ family & friends, networking, IP communications industry verticals & horizontals, running, traveling, foreign languages
| 1. "Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition..." Barack Obama .....
2. "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." By Thomas Sowell
A flurry of activity ... businessdevelopment and technical collaboration discussions were in every space at ITEXPO West 2012 and its many co-located events in Austin, Texas. I managed to catch a few on camera. I am still not through...
How many times have you thought of a better way of doing something, but you were afraid to rock the boat, especially if you are not the boss? Who gets made fun of the most? Those who speak up or...
How would you fill in that blank in the blog title? Shocking? Smart? Cool? Like why didn't Google buy Rapportive? Or TMCnet? Or Dun and Bradstreet? I even left a blank there at the end of my video talk on...
"Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee," says the Euro-American conglomerate that sells hundreds of different, well-loved, pre-packaged, sugary concoctions. This means that everyone likes Sara Lee. Maybe not, but that's a cool slogan. Sometimes a negative plus a negative equal a...
Take advantage of the excellent news sites in the East. We've got the best of the best here in the West like http://www.tmcnet.com ... also RCR Wireless, Fierce, TechCrunch, etc., but what about the other billions of people, services, investors, partners,...
Yesterday, one friend, a guy whose clients are musicians in the USA and around the world. He does video, PR, and social networking training with and for them. He asked me if I would connect him to different Asterisk Server...
In my Linkedin network, a dear industry friend asked me, "How are things working out for you? With the rapidly shrinking VoIP prices, and free everywhere, can you make it happen?"I responded with my normal long-winded manner:We never were a...
The opening reception of ITW is 5:30 PM May 23, 2010 Sunday. We'll get to hear President Bill Clinton speak. Euromoney, the group producing ITW this year, is already taking questions for him to answer! After the speech, we're going...
Interested in how small and large businesses are using social media like Twitter and open source telephony like Asterisk, openSIPS, Kamailio. and FreeSWITCH? We often want to pretend that what we do not understand "new disruptive ideas and services," i.e.,...
Both conferences attract a huge and robust mix of professionals, developers, early adopters, SMEs, voip companies, anything over IP companies, and more which results in exciting discussions and new innovations. When a conference only concentrates on one type of participant,...
An excerpt from the article at Inventors Digest regarding an invention entry in the Imagine Cup 2009, "Another team from Russia, OmniMusic, solved the latency problem with Internet video streaming. The team won the competition's software design prize in 2005. Teammates...
When I was 17, my college Introduction to Computers professor stated that I had no future in computers. So I bought a Tandy 1000 HX, got a job as an English teacher, brought the Tandy to my classroom, learned how to use it with the...